特斯拉在中國起飛

如果你第一次乘坐特斯拉汽車，會發現車主總會忍不住炫耀愛車。這次在北京，春光明媚的一天，我坐上瓦妮莎•朱的特斯拉就發現了這點。

「屏幕特別大，是吧？」她邊說邊在中控台上選歌，特斯拉的中控台比普通車上的大一倍，長得很像iPad。她手指輕盈划動，直到車裡響起阿黛爾的《送上我的愛》。隨後Model X鷗翼車門輕聲關上，車外景色透過全玻璃車頂一覽無遺。朱擔任一家大型營銷公司總裁助理，之前跟丈夫開的是寶馬X5，由於路況混亂，偏愛SUV帶來的安全感，所以買了特斯拉。朱是首批Model X車主，特斯拉還沒算出來預付款金額時就交了錢。

「現在把頭向後貼在靠枕上，」她向我建議。

兩車道的馬路上擁堵異常，路也不平整，突然出現一段平路，朱迅速加速。我們疾馳超過一輛黑色的小現代車，快到旁邊那輛好像停著沒動一樣。有一瞬間，車主和乘客同時感覺一股眩暈。紅燈了，朱踩了腳剎車，輕聲笑著換了另外一首阿黛爾的歌。

When you climb into a Tesla (tsla, +1.94%) as a first-time passenger, drivers turn giddy at the chance for show-and-tell—especially in China, where Vanessa Zhu is playing host on this sunny spring day in Beijing.

「It』s huge, isn』t it?」 she says, pressing the double-size, iPad-like control screen in the center console until the stereo blasts Adele』s 「Send My Love.」 Then comes the ceremonial closing of the gull-wing doors on Zhu』s Model X. We peer through an expansive glass roof. Zhu, the assistant to the chairman of a major marketing agency, likes SUVs for their safety on China』s chaotic roads—she and her husband upgraded from a BMW X5. One of the first Model X owners in China, Zhu paid a deposit before Tesla had even calculated how much a deposit should be.

「Now put your head back against the seat,」 she advises.

The two-lane road we』re on is missing traffic lines, not to mention levelness, but as a section clears ahead, Vanessa floors it. We whir past a small black Hyundai so fast that the car seems to turn stationary. For a second, driver and passenger feel the same head rush. Then Vanessa slams on the brakes to respect a stop sign, chuckles, and changes Adele songs.